![]() “And if an animal needs its booster shot in a month, they know where we’ll be.” “We have a lot of repeat customers and referrals,” she said. Wilt tries to keep a steady monthly schedule of swaps, so that customers who purchased an animal and had questions would know where to find her. “That’s how I found the chicken swap, and I was just endlessly interested in all the animals and the different people who were there.”Ī local church that had been renting the borough’s park pavilion on Sunday mornings will be heading indoors as the weather cools, so the monthly swap date will remain the same. “Once you get started, you kind of get obsessed with finding out about all the different kinds of chickens,” she said. Hall discovered the chicken swap when she moved to Greensburg two years ago. It’s called a chicken swap, but it’s evolved into people bringing all kinds of animals.” “Sometimes there are emu babies, or a skunk baby. “You never know what’s going to be there,” Wilt said. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t plenty of variety. The monthly swap is only for livestock - puppies and kittens need not apply. ![]() “It’s absolutely perfect,” said Jessica Hall, owner of Chicks on 66 and one of the organizers for the Delmont swap. Next month, it will move to Export Community Park. The Plum native has attended the Delmont swap since it began. “Since covid hit, all the Tractor Supply stores in Pennsylvania quit their animal swaps,” said Gail Wilt, co-owner at Down the Mountain Minis in Fallentimber, Cambria County, where she raises miniature donkeys, pigs and cows, among other livestock. ![]() But when the coronavirus pandemic hit, they slowly began dwindling. The agriculture chain has held the swaps at locations across the country for years. For about a decade, animal enthusiasts have gathered the first Sunday of the month at Tractor Supply in Delmont for the chicken swap.
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